project to collect these relics and place His precocity attractedi much nonotice, Home he returned with glowing ac them where they would be safe so much so, that, although William counts of the Georgia country. Twenty from fire and accessible to the public. Waddel was a poor man, he was years had passed since William and Site of Dr.-Moses Waddel School To put into effect the generous of finally persuaded to undertake the Mary Waddel had left Ireland with fer of the Presbyterian church at Wil expense of sending his son to Clio©s their faces set toward Georgia. Fate lington, no one has been more in Nursery, a grammar school that had had intervened, and they had settled. Offered to Long Cane Forest Unit terested or active than Albert Gibert, recently been opened in the neighbor instead, in North Carolina. Now after , a member of the congregation and a hood by the Rev. Dr. James Hall. all these years Georgia was to re 1 trustee for the academy property. It Moses Waddel entered this school in ceive them an4 give them a home, for might be interesting here to note that October, 1778, at the age of eight, and upon hearing what a Promised Land By Presbyterians of WillingtonlMr. Gibert is a direct descendant of by the summer of 17M, he had com it was, they decided to move thither the nephew of the Rev. Louis Gibert. pleted the work of the school. During as soon as possible. H would take "Pastor of the Desert" (the Desert, a his years in this school he was taught some time to get ready for the move, Beventeen-Acre Tract Includes Not Only "Campus" remote region in Southern France by a succession of divinity students, and Moses Waddel was urged by his 11 all of whom were most proficient parents to wait and accompany them of Noted Academy But Old Church and Graveyard, teachers. From 1780 to 1782, the school on the difficult journey, but the young Master©s Study, Though Much Dilapidated, Still i767heherded «« of p«- was closed on account of the pene man was impatient. He had tasted of tration of British soldiery into this freedom, and it had pone to his head, Standa-Many Men Who Achieved Power and section of the state, with the attendant so that, despite their entreaties, he Fame in Southeast Were Pupils of Extraordinary .,, moreover, this an- demoralization of all peaceful pur oarted with hi* uarents and set on* Gtbert©s. Pierre Gibert. suits, so that, in all. Moses Waddel was ahead of them for Georgia. But mis Teacher Who Was Later to Be President of Univer- whowiiu was«< » .._lrumental in inducing in attendance at Clio©s Nursery only fortune dogged his footsteps, and at ^ - Doctor Waddel to establish his school four years. Yet in that time he had last, in deep repentance for his dis sity of Georgia. . . / / - ^ fe. *»at Willington...... » . This- warm-hearted and become a finished Greek and Latin J . : :_ _ «*_ —— -Urn..,, remain Art al_ obedience?, he returned to his parents, entertaining Frenchman remained al- j scholar, had completed arithmetic, who by that time had arrivea safely ways a staunch friend to the institu- geometry, geography, moral philoso- in Green county, Georgia. Moses Wad- BY MBS. STEPHEN PUOKETTK. tion. and in seeking to benefit his phy and criticism, and, it might be del saw in the troubles that had over community by getting Doctor Waddel added. !iad acquired a sound knowi taken him God©s chastisement for hav the little doctor, and they app re, he gave to the edge of the Bible. Compare this "I wilt say of the Lord, He is my conscientiously his methods and his ing gone against his parents© wishes, incalculable advantage thorough and heavy intellectual and he resolved then and there never refuge and my fortress: my God; in routine, but the results were but a regimen with what a 14 year old boy Him will I trust" parody on what had been achieved be again to repeat such an offense. some influences from the today has acquired in our public In 1788 he opened a school in this If there is one forsaken spot more fore. Knowledge, insight, methods, } school, for Moses Waddel was barely thfM were all good, but only when pious and energe part of the,country, and here we see desolate than all others, it it a for New Bordeaux and the equally pious 14. Many a present day seventh grade the beginning of that spiritual strug saken schoolhouse, a place where trained through the motivating per- s*oality of Moses Waddel did they and thrifty Scotch-Irish of the neigh pupil, average age 14 years, cannot gle that was to continue until it re youth, vigorous and vibrant, has boring Calhrjun settlement. Further-1 read serious English intelligently, and solved itaeU by his decision to en striven anjd frolicked, has reached out become remarkable in their results. ", ** fmm th«»<* *1"" « *»"* mimi*i**j what does the smattering of history Infleed. it is in the personality of this ter the ministry. Despite his manly eagerly to lay hold on life and learn came some of" the" most celebrated of that he gets amount to, or the little bearing, Moses Waddel was only 18, ing, then gone its way to return no preacher-teacher that we must look for the unusual the magical factor Doctor Waddel©s pupils, chief among taste of elementary science? In com and the community in which hs school more. whom were John C. Calhoun and parison with this 18th century school. This, perhaps, is why old Willing- that wrought wonders. was located seems to have been a gay While not overbearing or antago the greatly beloved James Louis Peti- our public schools seem to get small and godless backwoods settlement. ton (a country community now in gru, whose home, "Badwelt," was results. But to return to the subject The youth of the teacher responded McCorrnick county, but once a part of nistically dogmatic. Mooes Waddel©s of tills sketch: moral and religious convictions were only a few miles from Willington. The with an eagerness that disturbed him Abbeville) produces such a depressed mother of James Louis Petigru was For a few months after finishing at feeling of desolation and loss, for the profound and rigid. His faith in to the frivolities of the neighborhood. God©s power, guidance, and care (a the daughter of the Rev. Louis Gibert, Clio©s Nursery. Moses Waddel at Terpsichore beckoned with a strange chief interest of the nlace, its very above referred to, and it will be re tended an English school to perfect reason for being and its crowning leith won through bitter spiritual allurement, that made him yield to struggle and conflict) was so firmly called that it was because of his himself in studies he had slighted at invitations to the weekly dances, only glory, was a school, a boys© school French extraction that Petigru the Latin school. Then, in October, to return home after each affair tor that rose to highest fame, only to fixed at last that all the utterances 1784, being 14 years, three months of perish with its creator. Today the site and actions of his life were marked changed the spelling of his name from mented by the thought that he was by a peculiarly comp^Hing confidence the English Pettigrew. age, he began his career as a teacher. doing wrong to participate in these of this abandoned school is drear, in With his father©s consent he had ac wild and wicked doings. After a long deed. Its woodland solitudes, that once and assurance. He Was doing God©s Already an interest in old Willing- | cepted a school 15 miles from home. work here on eartK, he believed, and ton and its redoubtable founder has ing © and bitter struggle between desire and heard the droning of endless class The Hunting Creek school. Shortly conscience, h©c at last was able to room recitations, that rang with for the strength and light to do it well been dimly manifested here and there before this,s, he had been forced to de youthful shouts and hearty laughter, he leaned to a divine source. It was over the state, and it is with the hope muster courage to decline invitations this combination of consecration and of quickening this interest that this cline an appointment as assistant in to these parties, and to fortify himself are silent now, and a spirit lonely structor in the academy at Cam- in his resolve, he moved to the home and reminiscent seems to brood there. faith that made the personality of article purposes to present as faith den, S. C. His father had refused to Dr. Moses Waddel, schoolmaster Moses Waddel at once profound and fully as possible a detailed sketch of of a pious and good man, and at night sanction his taking a place so far drowned his distractions in a forced and Presbyterian minister, the founder effective. Though many of the youths the life and labors of Moses Waddel. away, arguing that the extreme youth of Willington. and the wminftqn he taught disagreed with his doc Especially for parents and teachers concentration on his classical studies. of his son and the distractions of town More and more he turned, too, to academy, was, perhaps, SouflT Caro- trines (some even denying all re this story should contain facts and life might prove disastrous to the un lina©s greatest teacher. By some he ligion), they all respected his faith suggestions inviting consideration. secret prayer as a source of help, and tried country Jad, removed from the he began earnestly to study the has been-styled the "Carolina Doctor and were consciously or unconsciously Grieved over the loss of a daughter restraining influence of his home. Arnold." By others, more fittingly, he influenced Dy it, and by the attitude and an only son from smallpox, Wil Scriptures and books deaUng with re It was in his home and from the ex ligion. In April, 1789, he took his first has been called the maker of great it gave him toward life. Because at its liam and Mary Waddel, of County ample of his father we see that Moses men. Certain it is. historstory offers no heed it had a man great In goodness, of Down, Ireland, decided to start Waddel first learned to put character, communion in the Presbyterian more striking example of the power of Willington academy became a great life anew in America. With their five its protection and development, before church, having previously presented; one mind to mold and liberate the Kltool. daughters, they took passage for himself before the session for exami all else. Once William Waddel, a poor nation and the other steps necessary 1 factulties of others, to evoke th« best Becently public Interest has been Georgia, but the ship being driven man, had been faced with the alter ! and inspire its application. The career awakened in Willington and Moses out of its course by a gal*, they for membership in that church. He native of severe self-denial for him had hoped to find peace in his soul 1 of Moses Waddel offers strong proof Waddel by the offer of the Presby landed at Charleston. S. C , in Jan self and his family or the curtailment that moral rectitude and force, that terian church at Willington to donate. uary, 1767. While in a quandary as to of his gifted son©s intellectual develop after his experience, but the spiritual potent thing we call character, is not to the Long Cane unit of the Sumter what to do, they chanced to meet a ment and larger usefulness. The bailie went on. Doubts and torments | so much instilled as communicated National Forest the site of the famous farmer from Rowan county. North father chose to deny himself that his filled his mind. He wondered if after from one personality to another; that old academy. The area comprises Carolina. This man had just disposed promising boy might go forward. Now, all there were a God and a purpose goodness, a sens* of responsibility, about seventeen acres and contains of his produce and was ready to re whefc honor and gain were extended, for the world. The devil tempted him and the desire to excel are contagious the interesting old Presbyterian ceme turn home. He gave such glowing ac but seemed to threaten too great a in countless ways. He thought he was and "roll from soul to soul to grow tery and the old church near by; also, counts of the advantages to be found temptation to his son©s immature godless because he was too shy to be forever and forever." In all the acade the study used by Doctor Waddel. in North Carolina, that the Waddels character, he brushed honor and gain gin and end his day©s work at school mies that type of school that Both of these buildingsings are in a sad were persuaded to accept the offer of aside. It was because the foundation with prayer. Then there came a time flourished in the South in the early state of dilapidation.. Of the academy a free ride in his empty wagon, and of His character was ao firmly fixed in when a succession of terrible storms part of the 19th century it was this itself, nothing now remains but the the family set out for Rowan county. his © iuth that Moses Waddel was able broke over the little schoolhouse. The intimate contact between pupil and foundation stones of the building that There, with what meager fortune they in his maturity to rear upon it such wind and the lightning threatened de instructor that accomplished such onsisted of the chapel and four class had, William Waddel purchased a magnificent achievements. struction to all within. Moses Waddel Tine results, and in none of these rooms. small farm, and in this new home, In the Hunting Creek school the promise! in his-heart that if God would schools, was this more in evidence In the present public school in the July 20, 1770, Moses Waddel was born. young teacher met with remarkable spare him and the boys, he would than at Willington during the time of village of Willington there is pre- He was the fourth ion and tenth success. He had seven pupils in Latin, start daily prayer, but when the Doctor WaddeT. served the big braj» bell used by©th* child of his parents, and, being so and 20 in English, ana for his labors storm ceased, he lost his nerve. At Moses Waddel had a precocious in- old doctor to summon his classes. feeble at birth that his chances of he received a salary of |70 a year. last he was convinced that God©s tellect. Though not widely learned, he "Books! Books!" he would shout, and surviving seemed but small, he was After a year©s work, his health failed, voice was speaking to him in the was thoroughly grounded in the clas- the bell would be rung. Then from given the name Moses. and he returned to his father©s home tempest and commanding him to do ; aics. in Biblical lore, and in French, the woods surrounding the school and At the age of six, although still to rest an4 recover. For a while he did his duty. That day he closed his He was a born teacher, a very genius from the nearby huts the boys, whose delicate in health, Moses Waddel wm* a little teaching in a neighboring school with prayer, and ever after, at imparting knowledge, and his in- turn it was to recite, would come sent to school three miles distant from school, but by the end of the year there was never a time when his sight into the workings of the mind running. There was none of the usual home, taught by a Mr. McKown. On 1786 h-e had become so interested in classes did not begin and end their i and emotions of youth was most extra- "feet that creeping slow to school." account of sickness, the boy missed what he haH heard about the frontier day with a prayer to God. ordinary. But all these attributes These boys were all eager to learn about half the time he attended this country of Georgia that he decided to Still Moses W&ddel was shaken by cannot wholly account for the amaz- and to excel. The battered black school, which was approximately two o th«r« and open a school. This be alternate faith and doubt, and at last ing success he achieved as a teacher board used by Doctor Waddel (with years, but he learned during this brief Sid, but the school lasted only a few this conflict within began to tell upon of boys. There were other teachers perhaps, other relics of the old period how to read with accuracy and months, when it was broken up by an his health. His own description of this who followed him at Willington. They academy) U to be found today in WiU " write a fair hand. Indian invasion of the community. of_ storm and itraea it deeply he gave up hit school ana sought counwl of the Rev. tention of the congregauori, and we These boys were il educslNU either ©istory of South Carolina" written Thatcher and others, and by and by an told that "the interest of the at WSllington or at Athdni under a very interesting sketch of the acad give this point some consideration in light and peace came to his soul, and audience was manifested in a sur their father©s instruction, but from emy. A portion of this fa here measuring results. he resolved to go into the ministry. prise which at the close of the service the writings of the youngest son we quoted: But to quote another author who Having made hi* decision, Moses had reached its climax of delighted learn that from their gentle mother has written most interestingly about Waddel journeyed to Cambridge admiration." Among these good people "In !t (Willington academy) from Moses Waddel and Willington. the they received no small part of their 70 to BO students (the number Brew (close to Ninety-Six) to consult with there arose a considerable clamor as training for life. Rev. Dr. George Howe: "Though the ReV. Mr. Springer in regard to a to who should have the honor of "en afterwards to 180) are instructed in Moses Waddel had much confidence suitable seminary. By Mr. Springer, tertaining this wonderful stranger." In 1801, the year following his the Latin, Greek, and French lan in the birch, he had more hope in Moses Waddel was advised to go to The dispute was settled in the end by second marriage, Moses ^addel guages, and in such of the arts and God, and his heart was overflowing, Hampden-Sydney college in Virginia. Patrick Calhoun, the patriarch of the moved his family to Vienna, on the sciences as are necessary to prepare with love to his pupils and with Carolina side of the Savannah river, a candidate for admission into the zeal for their spiritual improvement. As he had several months of prepa- flock, who took the minister home as and there established^ his school. Old tory work to cover before he could his guest. higher classes of Northern colleges. They had always convened for morn hope to enter the senior class of the It was on this evening that Moseft maps in Mills©s Atlas show three The schoolhouse is a plain log build ing and evening prayer, and had "cities" with ambitious names, all ing in the midst of the woods, in a heard lectures on spiritual as well as seminary, he set out at on^e for Vir Waddel met tl.e fair Catherine, only clustered close about the point on the ginia. In January, 1791, Mosea Waddel daughter of Patrick Calhoun and his high and healthy country, and too moral themes; he had given them nil Savannah where Broad river flows in small to accommodate all the scholars his vacant Sabbaths; but not satis entered Hamp4«i-Sydney, and in comely, matronly wife. The young from the Georgia side as a tributary. September following, after not quite girl had been named for her grand in the hours of study. To obviate fied with this, he commenced in 1806, nine months in that institution* he mother, who with nearly fifty other In Georgia there were Petersburg this inconvenience, they are permitted a regular course of preaching on Fri and Lisbon, and just opposite on the and encouraged to build huts in the day afternoons. was graduated. nersons had been massacred in 1761 South Carolina side was Vienna. While at Hampden-Sydney, he made vicinity. These are the rough car "The people followed up these lec by the Indians at a spot not far dis These places were in the early 1800s pentry of the pupils, or constructed tures, and to accommodate the audi the acquaintance of Miss Elizabeth keen rivals for a vast commerce that Woodson Pleasants, who was on a tant from where Pat Calhoun©s house by workmen for about J4. In these, ence, they were mostly given out of visit to friends in the neighborhood. was afterwards built. As the kindly existed more in imagination and ex when the weather is cold, and under doors. His engagements had now Their friendship developed into a host, his wife and daughter and Mosea pectation than ever in actuality, but the trees when it is warm, the dif become so numerous, some must suf courtship, but the girl©t parents re Waddel set about the blazing hearth for a brief period, these now ©©dead ferent classes study. To the common fer. The charge of Rocky River was fused to consent to their daughter©s in the big room, the door creaked cities" had rather considerable popu school or recitation room they in now added to Hopewell. . . . and it going to live in the wilds of Georgia. sharply, and looking quickly around, lation, and their people were inel- stantly repair when called for, by the was his custom to convene his fam So, apparently, the affair came to an the minister caught a glimpse of the Hgent, alert, ambitious and well-to- name of Homer, Xenophon, the Cicero, ily for worship by candlelight on splendid tousled head of young John do. the Horace, or Virgil class, or by 4he Sabbath morning, ride on horseback end, and. about a year later, the Moses Waddel©ff school at Vienna young man left Virginia. Caldwell Calhoun. The lad©s bright, name of the author whose writings to these places, the one ten miles, In September, 1793, Moses Waddel. piercing glance swept the group prospered exceedingly and was al they are reading. In a moment th^y the other 15 miles, preach and return around the fire, and in a moment he most as famous as Wellington appear before their preceptor, and, the same day." This description of having moved to South Carolina and academy afterwards became. Here it taken up his abode with Thomas was gone. This was Mosea Waddel s with order and decorum, recite their the serious way in which religion first sight of his future pupil, after was that John ^. Calhoun returned to lessons; are critically examined in was taken a hundred years ago gives Legare, was appointed to preach once be tutored for two years for the each at James Island, Johns Island, wards South Carolina©s greatest states grammar and syntax, the construction one pause when we contemplate the man, and vice president of the United junior class at Yale, and here it was of sentences, the formation of verbs, shallow hold that God seems to have Wadmalaw, and Dorchester, and to that the guidance of Moses Waddel give the remainder of his time to States. It would seem almost as if the antiquities of Greece and Rome, on the lives of the people of today. work in Georgia. This schedule lasted destiny had directed this visit of the helped to shape the development of the history and geography of the an About 1809 a religious revival swept a year, when in 1794, the young young minister to the home of Patrick this brilliant and passionate intel cients, illustrative of the author whose the school. At least half the boys Calhoun, for though brief, it was lectual. Having entered Yale, it did works they recite; and are taught to were "under deep conviction and preacher was called to Carrnel church not take Calhoun long to discover that in Georgia for half his time, and in charged with fateful incidences. relish his beauties and to enter into more than 20 of the number hope That night, when Moses Waddel re the training in independent thinking his spirit Thus class succeeds class, fully converted." So greatly were that church, June 6, 1794, he was or that he had received at Willington put dained a full minister of the gosepl. tired to rest, he experienced a very without the formal it v of definite some of the students affected by this One of his former1 instructors at Clio©s vivid and disturbing dream. He him head and shoulders above most hours of study or recreation, till all religious awakening as almost to Nursery, Doctor Cummins, preached dreamed that shortly he married the of his classmates. What a teacher was have recited. In the presence of the threaten their health, but this ab the ordination sermon. The text was lovely Catherine Calhoun and that this Moses Waddel. a man who could students assembled a solemn and ao- normal state did not last long, and the taken from Ezekiel 33, and the theme soon thereafter she died. This dream, teach other men to think! oropriate prayer. imploring the net result was that many of hose of the discourse was that of the sad to say. literally came to pass. During these hapoy. busy, thriving Eternal in their behalf, .begins and converted were drawn into the min watchman set by the Lord over the In connection with this marriage years at Vienna. Moses Waddel was, ends the exercises of each day. In istry .and afterwards became distin House of Israel to warn the people of there is another happening that de in addition to his school work, this manner the classics are taught 190 guished divines, not only of the Pres danger and to be responsible to the serves to be told. It will be recalled preaching both at Hopewell and Lib miles form the seacoast. The glowing byterian church, but of other denomi Lord for any harm that might befall that because of her parents© objection erty. These churches were not far periods of Cicero are read and ad nations. them through his negligence. The to the rough life of the Georgia from the Huguenot settlement at New mired. The melody and majesty of It was during this period that the sermon must have made a lasting im frontier. Moses Waddel©s wooing of Bordeaux and the Scotch-Irish set Homer delight the ear and charm the initial steps were taken to organize pression on Moses Waddel, for from Elizabeth Pleasants had come to tlement of the Calhouns. For a long understanding in the very spot and a church at Willington. The old acad thenceforth, whether as the pastor of naught. Alas, when there remained time these communities had been under the identical trees which. 60 emy building at Vienna, with the a congregation or the master of a only a week before the day set for trying, because of the religious as years ago. resounded with the war- generous consent of the trustees, was group of school boys, it was ever as his wedding, the prospective bride well as cultural advantages it would whoop and horrid yellings of savage moved to Willington in the year of the the watchman responsible to the Lord groom received from Elizabeth give them, to persuade Moses Waddel Indians. revival, and "shortly it arose beneath that he regarded himself. In his Pleasant* a letter in which she plainly to move his school into their midst. "Of the large number that attend the already consecrated groves" of school work, while he was painstaking intimated that, desptt* her parents© As a targe share of his patronage de this school, nine in ten are as stu the academy domain. The new build in his instruction and ambitious for disapproval, she had resolved to brave rived from these settlements, it seem dious as their health will permit, and ing was a vast improvement over the his pupil©s intellectual advancement, the wilds of Georgia and accept his ed the wise thing to do. Most zealous as orderly in their conduct as their old two-room cabin, for it con it was ever upon character that he suit, This wan indeed an embarrass among those urging the change was friends could wish. Far removed tained a chapel for assembly and placed the emphasis. ment of riches, but we know from from the dissipation of cities, and services and four convenient class after events that the reply to this Pierre Gibert This grand old man In among sober, industrious and reli rooms. In the chapel the people of About this time, in addition to hi* 1804 succeeded at length in inducing preaching at Carmel church, Moses brave concession to love must have gious peoole. they must be studious. Willington and the nearby comn u- been gracious and tactful as well as Moses Waddel to transplant his or lose all character, and be pointed Waddel opened in Columbia county, school to a site secured for him about nities^iow gathered regularly for ser Georgia, a school which he later straightforward. at by the finger of scorn. If disposed vice, and in 1813 the church was for six miles below Vienna. Tradition has to be idle or vicious, they cannot moved to Appling, a village at no Moses Waddel took his young bride, it that Moses Waddel gave the name mally organized. great distance. Here began his fame Catherine, to Columbia county, Geor be so otherwise than by themselves; Wrought in the iron gates of the of Willington to the high and healthful for the place will not furnish them as a teacher (as well as a preacher) gia, and there and later at Appling, ridge on which the school was estab cemetery, close to where this building of unusual ability. John C. Calhoun lived with them and with associates. Monitors are ap stood, is the dale 1813. The dilapi lished, because the congregations of pointed to superintend each sub-divi Not long after his ordination, Mosec went to school to his brother-in-law. Vienna and old Liberty had signified dated church building now standing in Waddel was invited to preach at a The following year Catherine died, sion of the students; and such aj the vicinity of the graveyard was not their willingness to worship ther* to transgress the rules of the school are week-day service held in a school- leaving an infant daughter, who did gether. built until 1854. It is an interesting house near the Calhoun settlement in not long survive. Broken by his loss, reported once in every week. Over experience to walk through this ceme South Carolina. This event was to the bereaved husband suspended his In this new neighborhood the al them a court is held. They are al tery; to brush away the fallen leaves have a far-reaching affect on his life. school for several years, during which ready renowned schoolmaster began lowed to Justify or extenuate. A sum of oaks and magnolias and read the M this time, Moses Waddel was 24. time he devoted himself wholly to the great undertaking of his life, an mary decision is made. Though cor inscriptions on the discolored grave lie was five feet, nine inches, but missionary work. It was during this undertaking that was to make his poral punishment is not excluded, it stones. The magnolia trees and aging among those Scotch giants, he ap period of intensive religious work name honored from one end of the is rarelv inflicted. The discipline of gardenias, the fragrant boxwoods peared almost small. His muscular that two of his outstanding char country to the other. At Willington, the school-respects the pride of youth, and remnants of fine old flowering frame, that in later years filled out acteristics, punctuality and persever the pupils of Moses Waddel were and is chiefly calculated to repress shrubs give almost the suggestion of so that he became stout, even slightly ance, became conspicuously evident. drawn from all ranks of life, from irregular conduct by attaching to tt a neglected but once loved garden inclined to corpulency, was at this He made it a rule of life to be al the tidewater aristoracy and from shame and dishonor. The sagacious of the lowlands. "Ah, sad and sweet," date slender and erect. Perhaps his ways on trae for an engagement, and the hardy frontier homes where the preceptor quickly finds out the tem we murmur, "the days that are no large and finely shaped head, with its no matter how cold, rainy, or boys were accustomed to an unre per and disposition of each student, more." On the tombstones, too, are luxuriant dark hair, was the most im wretched the weather, or what diffi strained and rugged mode of ex and is the first to discover abera- names from the coast country, names pressive thing about the plainly culties beset his way, never to dis istence, and "the young dictator" we tions from the straight line of pro- that history has made famous. Mid dressed young minister, whose fame appoint congregation by failing to are told "in the introduction of his oriety. By nipping mischief in the dle ton. Bull and others. These tide had gone abroad, so that, week-day appear. new system had many and severe bud, he prevents its coming to any water aristocrats in the beginning of contests, the memory of which af though it was, the little schoolhouse About four years after the deatn of serious height. By patience in teach the 19th century had been drawn to was packed with a crowd of eager, fected his risibles for the remainder ing and minutely explaining what is this community, not only on account his wife, Moses Waddel was ap of his life." for the little doctor, for curious folk. In maturity, the kind pointed commissioner to the as difficult, he secures the affections of of its remarkable educational facili and benevolent heart of this man beat all his solemnity, had a keen if well- his pupils and smooths their labors; ties, but because cotton-grow ing in sembly of the Presbyterian church controlled sense of humor. beneath an exterior austere, almost meeting in Philadelphia. On the way while at the same time judicious the Up-Country had come to be rec stern, but in 1794 there was nothing there he stopped near his old home At first there was only a two-room nraise rouses ambition and kindles m ognized as profitable; they represent awe-inspiring about Moses Waddt-1. in Rowan county to see Miss Pleas- lo<* house with an open passageway their breasts an ardent love for im ed a oart of that general movement in His gray eyes looked out from under ants, his early love. His courtship, between, but soon a great number of provement and eagerness to deserve search of new land* that had started his thick, overhanging brows with after almost a decade©s intermission, crude little wooden huts (costing and gain applause." only a calm, miidly serious expression was renewed, and the two were mar about $5 each, usually built by the One advantage, w* might suggest shortly after the invention of the and neither his closely compressed, ried in 1800. A noble and devoted boys themselves) began to surround that this school had in common with cotton gin. With their ideas of exten rather full lips, onr his dignified, wife and mother did Elizabeth Pleas- the big cabin, "peepine out here and all academies of 100 veirs ago it was sive planting, these low-countrymen manly tread could wholly conceal his ants proved to be. In the years that there from among the chinquapin not coeducational. Boys in the teen had bought up the small farms in the boyishness. Many showed plainly followed, she bore two daughters and bushes," In these huts the boys lived, are were not subjected to the distrac Piedmont and combined them into that they were disappointed. four sons, all of whom reached ma and htre they studied, when the tion or the discouragement of having great plantations on which wealth and But when Moses Waddel rose to turity. Of the four sons, two became weather was bad. Ramsay, the histo fas they do today) to compete with numerous slaves reproduced, for a state his text, his voice, rich and distinguished ministers, one a teacher rian, who sent two of his CODS, proud the precocious sex, and we should season, much of the elegance and ted the at beloved physician. in his ace _of living found in the older take him away from this school of as mucn u bis cap*--., ..____ siveness to the call of duty, he ac- settlements of the coast The patron crs&, accustomed to fine linen an mit; all were proved to their limits, ccpted the task offered him, and when age of thehe people was loyally given much luxury. Chief among these fine Hill Billies. But somehow, to his own betterment, he had stuck it out and but it was recognized that limits are suitable arrangements had been made, to Doctor WaddelVs academy. young gentlemen, who led the hue different. ©©All men are created eaua."* for caring for the work of the acad But something else, besides Charles and cry against the lovable and so later among other remarks of ap proval one reads these words, refer is a false doctrine we try today to emy. Doctor Waddel moved his fam ton names arrests the eye as one cially inclined country youth, were instill. The only results we have se ily to Athens, where for ten years readi these old Wiling ton tombstones: the two Ramsays, sons of Doctor ring to Doctor Waddel. "A man to teach well by governing well." cured are to give "the swell-head" he labored with diligence and great ©He was a pupil of Dr. Moses Wad- Ramsay, the historian. Fleeing from to nit-wits, and to submerge poten succes.1* to accomplish the obligation del" is a legend that appears by the persecution of his tormentors. One other opinion w here set down. It was written by one who knew tial leaders beneath a mass of demo he had assumed. way of epitaph on more than one James Petigru took refuge in his cratic mediocrity. Among the phe- When Doctor Waddel first arrived marker. U is in reading these words hut. but even there the relentless Doctor Waddel and it reveals a keen understanding of the great teacher: nominally brilliant at Willington was at Athens he found only seven itu- that one realizes fully the distinction Ramsays followed him. Poking a George McDuffie, who is said to have denu, and these were running wild that was attached to this experience. stick, red hot at one end through the "Wayward, indeed, even reprobate, must have been the youth who retain devoured his Latin grammar in three in th* more or less dilapidated build Indeed to have attended Wellington window, one of these young dandies weeks, and come of the stories told ings that comprised the college. By applied the burning end of the seat ed in after-life no impression of the academy under the little doctor must genuine faith, the honest probity, and of the accomplishments of such men arranging for free board for poor have partaken of the nature of mem of Petigru©s pants, as the boys seat as Calhoun and Petigru seem almost boys who wanted to attend, by de bership in some order of honor. hurnpebT up trying desperately to the sterling energy of nia amiable vices such as scholarship* and patron bury his misery in a book. In a preceptor. Hey was amiable notwith unbelievable. To have been one of Doctor Wadders standing the rigidity of his discipline. In after years these men all loved age, by his incessant zeal and repu twys was something that at once set frenzy of rage and pain. Petigru to talk about their days at Willing- tation as a teacher, he soon had built rushed out after his foe. He knew A vein of pleasantry ran through the these fortunate ones apart and bound rich, heavy quarry of his brain; and ton, and they returned to the scene un the attendance to 100. and the Is _ them together. An expression of this fighting was strictly prohibited, but of their youthful efforts as often as ultv had been enlarged proportion idea is conveyed in the following come what come rray, he could stand flashes of wit not seldom Illuminated circumstances allowed. Commence ately. The old buildings were re lines from the eulogy on Moses Wad- no more, and he was upon the devil the thunder of his brow. Yet though ment time, when examinations were paired and new buildings came to del delivered by one of his former ish Ramsay in a twinkling, and a the luckless culprit might find in this h£ldJ_aas_ft_grand said tsJa occasion. fill some of the wide expanse of the fierce and terrible engagement fol a precedent for a smile, woefully pupils, Judge A. B. Longstreet, in was he, if he de«med that the rod The exercises lasted several days, and campui. In addition to his work for 1841: lowed, in which, after a time, Peti Ihe university. Doctor Waddel organ gru came off victor. The case was of strict justice would be thus avert parents and alumni attended in great ized the first Presbyterian church in "The fruits of his (Mosc* Wad- ed. There was manliness and bold numbers. The huts of the boys were del©s) vinegard are scattered far brought to trial, and both comba Athens; had church built, and for tants were punished. This seemed ness in his dealings which compelled turned into guest-chambers, while ten years served this organization as j^ and wide through the most of the hardly fair to Petigru. in whom even the respect of even the worst; and the students camped out under the P| Southern states, and long have they pastor. then a keen sense of justice was an his warm appreciation of good con trees. It was * time of stress at well When Doctor Waddel rame to] - been seen in rich luxuriance In the outstanding characteristic. However, duct could not fail to secure the in capital of the union . . , For 30 years the affair had good results, for it terest of the wise and studious." he has not been without some Ajax in quickly revealed to the boys the true It was not all work and no play at the field of political warfare, where nature and quality of this new fellow Willington. The boys had plenty of students, and severe was the test in hU own school, whose word ha< all the champions of the states con disciple, and he rose swiftly to the good times, and there were extra- scholarship that each candidate had been law, who had looked to no man vene, whom whatever we may have pinnacle of their regard and affec curricula activities at the academy that to face. Cnief among those who loved for advice, but had relied entirely thought or said of his talents, we all tion. gave the relief of lightness to the to come back to Wiilington for com on his own judgment, might, for alt felt proud to acknowledge as a South Perhaps it was this very incident more difficult and serious courses of mencement was John C. Calhoun, and his genius ** a teacher and his sin erner, and prouder still to recognize rankling in the heart of a descendant study. There were debates and for years he served on the board of cere piety, prove domineering and u a fellow disciple." of Petigru©s that moved him to pen declamations and wrestling matches, examiners. Besides examinations. bouy with * college faculty, might In 1807. South Carolina college, this paragraph: races, jumping, playing town-ball and there were declamations and debates almost unconsciously play the in during the presidency of Doctor "Doctor Waddel. though a rigid hullpen; hunting and fighting. This and even dramatic performances. tolerant dictator, but not so. His Maxcy. bestowed upon Moses Wsddel dominie of the old school, was never- last recreation for a time, as has been There were picnic dinners, and no relationships with his faculty were the degree of doctor of divinity. the less sufficient of a courtier to wish said, was entirely too popular to doubt field day sports to lend va remarkable for good fellowship and Honors and praise were heaped upon his rich birds to make the finest show suit Doctor Waddel, who determin riety to th* program. And all whoj consideration. His son. a Presby him enough to turn any man©s head, ing, and was nroportionately provoked ed to stamp it out before it got be came went away with the feeling of] terian minister, explain* this adapt and one writer has remarked that it when his eaglets would soar up from yond his control When the usual having had a Dart in something ability and adjustment to new con© was little wonder that in his de out the homespun ranks, as most of method of punishment failed to ar splendid and delightful. ditions, this willingneu to co-operate clining years the little doctor showed thorn did." rest the resort to violence in settling Here in a backwoods country, tin rather than command, by saying that signs of being a bit vain-glorious, as Petigru. himself, bore no malice disputes. Doctor Waddel decreed that gle-handed, this man with a love for when Doctor Waddel was "on his he reviewed, with the garrulity of old toward the honored master of Wil- in any fight the aggressor should youth, and a love for God, and plenty own." M the saying goes, he looked age, the achievements of his past ac Ungton, but ever cherished for him undergo, in addition to the wonted of grit in the gizzard of his soul, to his Lord and Master for guidance tivity. an affectionate and lofty regard. We caning, the mortification of removing had reared a temple of learning that and strength for his task, but having Many amusing anecdotes art told are told that shortly after the little hU coat. The first to face this new sent forth men cultivated ana ca been provided, as it were, with coun of of Doctor Waddel and his sys Doctor©s death, during the delivery decree was a proud youth, who pable, and able to think for them selors md helpers he considered it tem. of a eulogy his former instructor in defiantly refused to uncover, saying selves, an amazing number of whom! was. in God©s scheme that he weigh One* an unusually incorrigible which pathos and quaint humor were that his father had never required became the outstanding leaders of the their judgment and temper his own youth, who had violated rules and most inimitably combined, Petigru him to remove his coat, and that he states from which they came. No by it, as he saw fit. As a result of refused to pay his fees,, borrowed became so affected by his emotion as would remove it for no man. Twice wonder Moses Waddel has been given this attitude a warm feeling of friend a horse from a nearby farmer in to be unable to finish his address. the Doctor repeated the command, the title of "The Father of Classical ship and helpfulness existed between order to escape home and avoid the And we know that long after Peti rnd twice the youth defied him. The Education in Upper South Carolina the president and the faculty. They consequences of his misbehavior. Un gru had left Wellington, when he was third time, the doctor mildly added and Georgia;" no wonder he has been nil worked together to advance the fortunately, or rather fortunately, the that if the coat was not instantly re styled "The Maker of Great Men.* interests of th* college. So much miscreant was lured by his possessions about to take a wife, it WM Doctor moved by the young man. it would Doctor Smith, president of Prince- was accomplished by Doctor Waddel to return to the school. In a twinkling Waddel. whom he invited to officiate! be removed for him. The lad began ton at the time, declared that of the during the ten years of hi* presidency the doctor was upon him, and before- at the ceremony. And in a letter! again. "I shall remove my coat for boys at Prince-ton, none stood a bet toward the restoration and enlarge vhe rider could turn tail and flee he written to his daughter. October 14, i no man," but seeing the master ad ter examination than those who came ment of the institution that by many was moat skilfully unhorsed. The rod 1862, he reveals the importance he vancing toward him with determina from Doctor Waddel©s school; and he has been called the savior of the was produced, as if by magic, and a attached to the event of his entrance tion, he lamely added, "Yourself ex- Men wether wrote that, "No othe/ University of Georgia. sever* chastis«ment inflicted, after cepted, Sir." and off came the coat, as a student at Wellington academy. man in the South has so powerfully At the time that Doctor Waddel which the youth was told to go. But The letter reaoi: The strokes that fell, however, came on men who in- the truant had changed hi* mind. down not as expected upon the lad©s accepted the presidency of th* Uni ©©This day, my dear Carey (October versity of Georgia he was receiving No. he would stay; and stay he did, 14, 1882). marks an important epoch bare shoulders, but upon the usual as this Willington master." Judge A. to become one of the best and most spanking place. The © sson had gone considerable notice as an author. in my life. This day 58 years ago, I B. Longstreet, president of South American writers wtr* few and far obedient boys in the school. was received Into the school at Wil- home without that needless hurt, and Caroline college, author of "Georgia Another time, during one of the fighting at Willington came prac in 1819. and a book that in lington, to which I was conducted Scenes." judge, and Willington alum times has been brushed , weekly court scenes, a certain boy by my poor Uncle Joe, where a tically to an end with this episode. nus, said. "Posts of honor in this was charged with the offense of hav Of the debating societies or groups as pure -sentimentality and rubbish, Latin grammar, as a substitute for fSouth Carolina» and the neighbor described by the late Dr, Yates Snow- ing swung a foul-smelling cat, three the plough, was placed in my hands. there are many amusing anecdotes ing states *r» so common to Doctor days dead, under the nos« of the recounted. A. B. Longstreet once sug den u "a miserable little goody, Of those who then formed the bury Waddel©s pupils that they might al goody Sunday school book." went complainant. The defendant was occupants of Doctor Waddel©s hive, gested some absurd subject for de most be considered their legitimate asked if he had anything to say for bate which was taken serious]v by inheritance." through three editions in this coun the only survivors that I know are try and was published in Great Brit himself. He admitted readily that he Louis Gilimer and Alexander Bowie. some of the less clever ones, and the To give a full Hit of ill the cele had swung the cat and that pussy had debate that ensued was memorable. ain. Hie title of the bok was Time has effected many changes." brated men taught by Doctor Wad- "Memoirs of the Life of Miss Eliza Indeed been three days dead, but. de The LouU Gilimer (governor of Often, we are told, the woods re del would be impossible, but DeskJet clared the accused, there was nothing sounded with practice declamations beth Smelt." It represented Doctor Georgia) referred to In this letter Calhoun, McDuffie, Petigru, Gilimer, Wadded sole attempt at authorship, boat the cat to offend the most once wrote of Doctor Waddel that he by youthful orators, who, in after Longstreet, Legare and others al . olfactory nerves, for the weather had years, held the great of tht Una and when praise came to him for this "was a most admirable example of ready mentioned, we might add a few work, u it did, he decried any talent been below freezing and the cat was the superiority of a strong sense of spellbound by their eloquence. others, namely: G. W. Crawford (gov frozen stiff. He proved his point Ambition and the desire to excel in this line, but declared he had writ duty and untiring industry in the ernor of Georgia). W. H. Crswford ten th* life of this good woman be and the case was dismissed by the employments of life over genius were the hall-mark of Doctor Wad (minister to France, secretary of the edate judge, whose frown deepened del©s students. To fall to prepare a cause no one else seemed inclined to and accomplishments." treasury), Preston Brooks (congress undertake the labor. Judged by tht u he strove to conceal his amuse lesson was seldom heard of. for to man). Patrick Noble (governor ot Testimonials of esteem and ap have to repeat a recitation was a dis standardi and sentiments of the pres ment. preciation might be listed, not by the, South Carolina), Henry Collier (gov ent, these memoirs are sll that Doctor, There is another story told o{ Doc score, but by the hundreds. There Js[ grace almost unbearable. The boys ernor of Georgia), T. H. Ward lav tor Waddel©s court. It appears in vied with each other to see who could (chancellor), et *1. Snowden uyi, but judged by th* cir "The Life and Letters of James L. a remark I should like to quote from cover the most ground in Greek or cumstances and standards of the time Hugh Swinton Legare, regarded as In 1819 Doctor Waddtl was invitea in which they were penned, perhaps, Petigru." Fighting among the boys the most cultivated mind of his day Latin, each student advancing as fast by the trustees of the University OL was one of the moat serious problems and as far as his abilitv and applica they should not be cast aside so con in South Carolina. He had been Georgia (then Franklin college) to temptuously. the doctor had to settle, and his at among the most ccultivated minds of tion could take him. Prodigious re become president of that institution. titude toward these disturbances was of his day in South Carolina. He had sults were accomplished by some of They represented to Doctor Waddei In 1829. after ten y*ar« of strenuous usually most stern and unbending. been among the most fastidious the more gifted students. There was the low ebb to which the college haa effort in behalf of th* University of James Petigru had just come to Wu- youths attending WilUngton, and at none of our present day attempt to sunk, and urged u the only hope Georgia, feeling the weight of years I in g ton. He was a great, rough-looking one time had found the plain hard pour a gallon of learning into a gill- of saving the school that he accept and wearied with his many labors, liarrn boy, uncouth in dress and awk head, a process resulting u usually in th* presidency and use his prece- Doctor Waddei resigned tht prtsi- ward in manners, or so it appeared living at the academy so distasteful putting only a pint into a gallon- - ©- © |o Wil- ! »u his str-w of "wifort and elegance head. Each went forward at Willlnfl- and ability in building it up »t first to the LowtCountry aris© ,fj imnlorfM hi* nir-tb^r to & ,.,.(ivo.. 10 cultivate hil plantation oi ©i©i.t i *.. ,^Ui/pa society of the erity of life .thai ur. Watinpii 1,100 acre*, look after his slave*, su versity has erected to his memory pervise tome what th* work of the near the entrance to the new ceme pupils knew, and which contrib- academy (that had continued if with tery a plain granite shaft. In th* CAROLINA FOLKLORE utPd to their concentration. less brilliant results during hi* ab church at Willington and the church Our boys and girls coulrl stand sence) preach and do missionary at Athens (both uf wich be founded) By DR. F. W. BRADLEY gates (In a spirit of good clean up under those austere conditions work.© but withal to go at a little tere are tablets lo him. The;* are Out of a "quaint and curious fun.) as well as Calhoun and McDuffie. slower pac* and take Uf« a little the testimonials in stone that have and maybe we shall find it neces easier. volume of forgotten lore" are gath "They arose at dawn and re been raised fu Moses Waddel. He was a ered the facts© about a school that sumed their studies. Under the sary in the future. If so we shall r But sorrow, pain and helplessness beloved pastor of many flocks; be equal to the occasion. w«re doomed to All a Urge portion genius as a teacher; an inspirer of was founded near Willington S.C., wide spreading branches in sum of the la«t decad* of his life. Al- youth; a friend to all in need. More in 1804. mer and in their huts in winter though all unaware of it. hii days than all these, his career exemplifies At that time the Huguenot settle the students were busy preparing THE STATE AND of vigor and untiring service were supremely the success of a life in ment along Little River and the their recitations until each class drawing rapidly to a close, when in which a sens* of stewardship and re COLUMBIA RECOR] sponsibility to a Divine Father amount Scotch - Irish along the Savan in its turn was summoned to the 1829 he came home to the scene of nah were thriving. To this com- house for recitation, answering to his most superb endeavors, expecting ed almost to a passion. Jut* 11, 1961 still to do much useful work before Moses Waddel, who put character, munity came, In 1804, the Rev. the call: the Virgil Class, the the curtain of death was rung down that pearl of great price, before all Moses Waddell. to found a school Homer Class, etc. on his last act. else, accomplished great things in his and preach. He had had five years "Instead of playing baseball or life, because he had taken his God- ! Not long after his re-eitabUihment given gifta and used them to the ut of schooling, and at the ags of 14 football, the boys took their recre at Wiliington. his beloved wife died. most for good. Literally he had be he was recommended for a tutor ation in running, jumping, wrest after many month* of great pain and lieved and literally practiced the in ship in the Camden Academy, as ling, playing town ball (called in weai-ine«a from that must terrible of junction, "Give to him that asks." He the best linguist In the school. His the eighties ©round-about©) and diseases, cancer. A gentle, patient, gave of himself, his time, his talents, father would not allow him to bull pen. The big boys hunted loyal and loving wife and mother the his means. His own wants were few, had been, and her death was a grief and his mode of living so simple that take the tutorship, but next year squirrels, turkeys, etc.. on Sat ! to her h vis band that could never be he always had the wherewithal to j he took charge of a school of urdays, and ©possums and coons cured. Her body waj laid to rest in help others. His generosity was al twenty pupils for J70 per year. at night. the cemetery at Willington and there most proverbial. When chided for Next year, 1786, he went to "Although devoted to the clas a smalt rteadstone today marka her a liberality that gave so unquestion grave. Georgia, but found conditions too sics, Dr. Waddell preferred to fol ing! y. he was wont to reply, "He that| unsettled by reason of Indian up Although Doctor Waddel survived sows sparingly shall reap sparingly." low the advice of Solomon rather his wife b\ almost ten years, It was Gen«rous though he was with ma risings, so to prepare himself for than that of Plato in regard to I apparent after her death that age was terial posses*ions, it is chiefly fori the ministry he spent eight months ihe use of the rod. He managed his settling rapidly upon the little doc the spiritual and intellectual good and twenty-six days at Hampden- school through the aid of moni tor. His once firm step began to lag; that he shed around him near and far Sidney College, and wag gradu tors whom he appointed Irom his sermons lacked their virile tone that we of today feel, or should feel, ated and licensed to preach. He among the host students, and he and well-planned construction and a sens* of indebtedness and gratitude. then began his life work. wandered on and on. until his listen "The good that men do" {Mark An never whipped except on their re ers were worn to a frazzle; in con tony to the contrary) Is not "interred He first went to Georgia, and port and afterwards on the deci versation he wait at time* atownl- with their bones," but lives on and from 1791 to 1804 he taught and sion of a jury ol the boys. He mindeH or inclined lo b* garrulom. on in other lives Though we may preached at several places there. Hogged only for misbehavior, and His Ant ke«n mind atem«d to b*v« not be aware of it. there are many Then he came to the Witlington rarely corrected a student for de I Tost somewhat of its grip and penetra- today who are better men and women community. The school community linquency In recitation. To be re- tion. He was growing old. because Mosen Wadde! gave his consisted of the main building at In September, 1831. while his sons. life to the service of his generation. quired to recommit a recitation Isaac and John, were with him at With the words of his devoted pu the head of the street, and one- was considered by all as such a Willington. Doctor Wadd*l had a pil. James L. Petigru. this sketch room cabins along each side for disgrace that he never found it stroke of paralysis and apoplexy. will be brought to a close. In 1846, in dormitories, ten or twelve, con necessary to use any other cor From this illness, which at first concluding an address at the Univer structed in part by the boys them rectives. threatened to be fatal, he never re sity of Georgia. Petigru said: selves. All construction was of covered, although for four years he "The civilization of Ins age and "All of Dr. Waddell©s students dragged out a painful and unhappy country may be Mid. in some degree, logs. The huts had chimneys, some loved and venerated him. He was existence, a physical and mental to be indebted to him (Moa*s Wad- of brick, others of wood. This a worker himself, and he required wreck. dVl). for he carried th* lamp of learn means that wooden laths were work of others.,The drones of a During his illn«u the young son ing to a distance from th* crowded used to reinforce the clay which class in Virgil would prepare from of his dearly beloved pupil, John C. seats of men. and exerted an influence held the laths In place. Such a i« i»u*« W education that was widely ino to 150 lines for a recitation, Calhoun, was brought in to see him. chimney is strong or weak ac while the leaders would prepare For a few moments the face of the cording to the amount and quality sufferer lighted up and he strove to felt. A devout minister of religion, 1r)00. The brilliant and ambitious he extended its benefits to the poor; of the clay used. Njys would not be held back by recall some incident connected with a priest without avarice or ambition, The main building consisted of Calhoun©i school days with which to he fed his Master©s sheep with noj the drudges. He would form new amuse the child, but his faculties mercenary hand; kind, without weak- 1 two classrooms, one for the pri classes, and push the best stu were no longer at his command and nes*es, devoted t0 learning, but still mary pupils and q larger one for dents -on. the effort resulted only in exhaustion, more devoted to virtue, he trained the older ones, then the prayer In time Doctor Wadde 1 recovered "No other man In the South has sufficiently to get about, but his his pupils to place prida of intellect room, the court room and general so powerfully impressed himself condition was a distress to himself far below the value of moral sensi convocation room without seats, on men who influenced the destiny bility. and having just space enough for und to those who loved him. Durmg "Ho the virtues that he taught and of the country as this Willington these last years he requested re the discipline acquired in his school 150 boys to stand. master." peatedly that at his death he be buned The street was about 40 yards beside his wife at Willington. He are many indebted: and some there Here are tome of his students: are. whose hearts will not receive, wide. Beyond this area were here W. H. Crawford who was "prob even had these instructions written unmoved, the impression of his name,© into his will, and it is a pity, a great literary recluses who could not en ably defeated for the presidency in when the caus* of education anil the dure the din in th* street at play pity, that this earnest request was inlld dignity of private life recall tb» 1824 by an unfortunate stroke of disregarded and his body laid to rest memory of Mo**s Waddel." time." The regular price of a paralysis" and was regarded as in the cemetery in Athens. CIJK.RA CHILDS PUCKETTE. house on the street "on front row, the greatest o! the citizens of As soon AS he was somewhat re waterproofed and easily clinked" Georgia; Eldrod Simpkins. M.C.; stored he summoned all his children Sources of information: was five dollars. Several boyi oc to his bedside and divided among 1. "Memorials of Academic LJfe John C. Calhoun; W. D. Martin, them his property, reserving for him- cupied one house of course. Judge, and M.C.; James L Peti Through Three Generations," John N. So, "far removed from the noise ! self only enough to provide for hil Wadtlel. D. D. gru; Andrew Govan, M. C; Hugh ; simple needs as long as he should 2. Ramftay©s "History of South Caro and dissipation of the city, the stu S. Lcgarp, Atty. Gen. and Cabi live. When he was able to travel, lina." dents applied themselves closely net member; George McDuffie, j he went to Athens to live with his 3. Wallace©s "History of South Caro to their work. Among sober and son. then a professor in the uni lina." M. C., Governor and U. S. Sena versity there, on July 21, 1840. With Industrious people, anxious to mer tor; George R. Gilmer, M. C. 4. History of the Presbyterian it the praise of their great precep in a few days of his 70th birthday, Church in S^uth Carolina." Volumes 1 and Governor of Ga; George Ca- he died. He was urged by prominent and 2. George How*. D. D. tor, they had to shirly or he point rey, M C., Ga.; John Walker, citizens of Athens that he be buried 5. Newspaper article by J. S. Plow- ed at with the finger of scorn. M. C. Ala.; Henry W. CbUier, there, and in th* Waddel plot in den. Such was the spirit among them Oconee cemetery, all that is mortal 6. "Life, Letter* and Speeches of J. that drones were hardly tolerated Chief Justice and Governor. Ala.; at Mo*ei Waddel rests today. L. Petigru." J. P. Carson. at all, and nine out of ten studied Goroge W Crawford, M C and A very small headstone marks hii 7. "Mows Waddel and the Willing- Gov, Ga.; Patrick Noble, Gover grave and on it are engraved these: ton Academy." Ralph M. Lyon. as hard as their health would nor; D. L. Wardlaw, Judge; F. H. "Moaw Waddel, D. D. 8. Univerxity nf Georgia- Files. permit. Their We wag simple and Wardlaw, Chancellor; A. B. Long- Born July 38, 1770 9. Willington school and graveyard. industrious and their food was street, Judge and Pre«, U.S.C.; Died July 21, 1MO." 10. Interviews, Spartan in Its plainest corn- The University of Georgia bouts A," P Butler, U. S. Senator; P a long list of distinguished alumni bread and bacon. M. Butler, Governor, and Colonel who were students under Doctor Wad- "Instead of gas and students© of Palmetto Regt. in the Mexican del©s presidency. Beyond what he did for the university, Athens is indebted lamps, they pored over the les War. to Doctor Waddel for his labors as s sons by the aid of pine torches. Dr. Waddell had something quite pastor and organizer of the Presby At the sound of the horn they close to Mark Hopktnn and a stu terian church in that city, and lor retired to bed, except for a few dent on a log. One great differ • his devoted services as a citizen. But adventurous spirits who set out !n ence between the present find the j like South Carolina, Georgia has al quest of a hen-roost, or to unhinge past is the alWnce of that aus- ,; tolowed -" the -* memory of this great man